The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Planet PDF
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Strange</strong> <strong>Case</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Jekyll</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Mr</strong>. <strong>Hyde</strong><br />
HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL<br />
STATEMENT OF THE CASE<br />
I WAS born in the year 18 — to a large fortune,<br />
endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature<br />
to industry, fond <strong>of</strong> the respect <strong>of</strong> the wise <strong>and</strong> good<br />
among my fellow-men, <strong>and</strong> thus, as might have been<br />
supposed, with every guarantee <strong>of</strong> an honourable <strong>and</strong><br />
distinguished future. And indeed the worst <strong>of</strong> my faults<br />
was a certain impatient gaiety <strong>of</strong> disposition, such as has<br />
made the happiness <strong>of</strong> many, but such as I found it hard to<br />
reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high,<br />
<strong>and</strong> wear a more than commonly grave countenance<br />
before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed<br />
my pleasures; <strong>and</strong> that when I reached years <strong>of</strong> reflection,<br />
<strong>and</strong> began to look round me <strong>and</strong> take stock <strong>of</strong> my<br />
progress <strong>and</strong> position in the world, I stood already<br />
committed to a pr<strong>of</strong>ound duplicity <strong>of</strong> life. Many a man<br />
would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was<br />
guilty <strong>of</strong>; but from the high views that I had set before<br />
me, I regarded <strong>and</strong> hid them with an almost morbid sense<br />
<strong>of</strong> shame. It was thus rather the exacting nature <strong>of</strong> my<br />
aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults,<br />
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